Prime Minister lays wreath at Shastri Memorial and visits Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies

The Prime Minister paid floral tributes at the Shastri Memorial in Tashkent, marking the 60th anniversary of the passing away of former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri in 1965. During the State Visit, the Prime Minister also visited the Tashkent State University of Oriental Studies, where he interacted with Indologists and scholars at the Mahatma Gandhi Centre. He announced the Lal Bahadur Shastri Scholarship for Hindi language for Uzbek students, noting that the university marks its 80th year of Hindi teaching and that there are over 3,000 common words between Uzbek and Hindi languages.